In the print edition of the Bangkok Post today, on page 6, there's some good news and bad news about public taxis at the airport. In the time honored tradition of fixing something that is not broken and is working fine, the new Transportation Minister wants to go back to the original idea of a transportation center for taxi queues. I guess a shuttle bus to the transportation center too but the article does not say anything about that.

Minister Songsak uses the Thai broad usage of the term Mafia referring to who's now in charge of the taxi queues and wants TOA to control taxis. I though TOA was sorta the Mafia?

The good news is that he wants to eliminate the 50B surcharge. The article implies that that extra charge goes to the driver not TOA as I always been told. I seem to recall someone else in the government saying that surcharge was going up to 75 Baht.

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